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*** Call for Papers ***
Special Issue in the Journal of Systems and Software on
Consistency Management in Software-Intensive Systems
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/call-for-papers/special-issue-in-the-journal-of-systems-and-software-on-cons
*** Important Dates ***
Submission deadline: 30 June 2021
First notification: 30 Sept 2021
Revision: 30 Dec 2021
Second notification: 30 March 2022
Final version: 30 May 2022
*** Theme ***
Over the last decades, the fast-growing complexity of everyday
software-intensive systems has forced industry and academia to use
and
investigate different development techniques to manage the many
different aspects of the systems, especially when these systems
are
heterogeneous and there is a need to combine interdisciplinary
engineering models (i.e., models created by engineers from
different
expertise and different domains).
This new generation of systems requires maximizing the use of
models
and data collected throughout the system life cycle, which needs
to be
processed, organized and structured to help to manage and improve
the
systems. As a consequence, during the overall system engineering
lifecycle different modelling techniques, languages, and tools are
employed requiring efficient mechanisms for maintaining the
consistency of two or more related sources of information. In
fact,
supporting the consistency management across multiple models
requires
understanding the relationship between these models that they
should
maintain a (multi-)model consistency requirement as changes in one
model affect other models. As a consequence, these relationships
can
be defined, by means of traceability and bidirectional
correspondences
among the different artefacts.
Using the automotive industry as an example, the development of
cars
has evolved in the last decades from pure mechanical engineering
to
multidisciplinary engineering where engineers from different
domains
(including software engineering, electrical engineering, safety
engineering, and mechanical engineering) are involved. For
instance,
system engineering models are employed early to capture
requirements
and basic structuring of the entire system, while software
engineering
models are used later on to describe the concrete software
architecture. Each model helps in addressing the specific design
issue
with appropriate notations and at a suitable level of abstraction.
Finally, while the traditional method uses a linear approach,
where
the stages of the software development process must be completed
in
sequential order, today's methodology uses iterative and
incremental
approaches, where the development processes are executed in
parallel,
increasing the need for synchronization and consistency management
approaches.
The main challenges associated with this context are related to:
model
synchronization, interoperability between languages and tools,
model
and multi-model consistency maintenance, management of
inconsistencies, traceability and correspondences.
This theme invites researchers from different areas including
software
engineering, programming languages, databases, and document
engineering. Contributions in the area of software development of
embedded and software-intensive systems, self-adaptive systems,
cyber-physical systems are welcome.
This special issue welcomes contributions regarding languages,
methods, techniques, tools and experience reports about adopting
consistency management, as well as empirical studies, e.g., case
studies, investigating the cost and benefits of consistency
management
approaches.
The topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not
restricted to, the following:
- Heterogeneous modelling
- Consistency management of data, models and multi-models
- Interoperability between languages and tools
- Traceability
- Bidirectional communications and correspondences
- Bidirectional transformations
- Bidirectional programming languages and frameworks
- Data and model synchronization
- Synchronization for models@runtime
- View updating and view adaptation
- Change propagation and (co)evolution
- Model/metamodel/transformation coevolution
- Benchmarks, case studies, and tool support
Surveys, (Systematic) Literature Reviews or Mapping Studies are
out of
the scope of the special issue and will be desk-rejected.
*** Guest editors ***
Romina Eramo, University of L’Aquila, Italy
(
romina.eramo@univaq.it)
Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China (
zhenjianghu@pku.edu.cn)
Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
(
manuel.wimmer@jku.at)
*** Editors-in-Chief ***
Paris Avgeriou and David Shepherd
*** Special Issue Editors ***
Wing-Kwong Chan and Raffaela Mirandola
*** Submission Guidelines ***
The call for this special issue is an open call.
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that
has
neither appeared in nor is under consideration by, other journals
or
conferences. If an earlier version of this work has been
published,
then this submission must be at least 30% different in terms of
contribution and the authors should explain in the introduction
the
delta between this new paper and the prior version. Authors are
requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant,
previously
published articles and a summary document explaining the
enhancements
made in the journal version.
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted
through the Editorial Manager at
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jssoftware . Follow the
submission
instructions given on this site. All submitted papers should
adhere to
the general principles of the Journal of Systems and Software
articles. Submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide
for
Authors, available on the journal website. The submitted paper
must
follow the format specified in the JSS Guide for Authors
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-systems-and-software/0164-1212/guide-for-authors.
*** Decisions ***
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three expert
reviewers.
The guest editors, together with the Editors-in-Chief and the
Special
Issues Editors will make the final decisions.
For more information about the special issue, please contact the
guest editors.
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Manuel Wimmer
Full Professor
Head of Department Business Informatics – Software Engineering
https://www.se.jku.at
Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Model-Integrated Smart Production (CDL-MINT)
https://cdl-mint.se.jku.at
Program Director Business Informatics (Master)
https://www.jku.at/en/business-school
Johannes Kepler University Linz
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4040 Linz, Austria
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